Norton in Hales explained

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Static Image Caption:Church of St Chad
Country:England
Region:West Midlands
Civil Parish:Norton in Hales
Unitary England:Shropshire
Lieutenancy England:Shropshire
Official Name:Norton in Hales
Os Grid Reference:SJ702386
Coordinates:52.944°N -2.443°W
Population:620
Population Ref:(2011)[1]
Post Town:market drayton
Postcode Area:TF
Postcode District:TF9
Dial Code:01630
Constituency Westminster:North Shropshire

Norton in Hales is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England.

It lies on the A53 between the town of Market Drayton and Woore, Shropshire's most northeasterly village and parish.

Staffordshire is to the east of the parish and Cheshire to the west. Also within the parish is the village of Betton and hamlet of Ridgwardine.

The parish church is Saint Chad's. Also within the village are Norton in Hales Church of England Primary School, the Hind's Head Inn, and a large playing field.

The monument to Frances, Lady Cotton (d. 1606) in St Chad's was designed by Inigo Jones around the year 1611. Her husband Rowland Cotton, who commissioned the tomb, was associated with the court of Prince Henry, as was Jones. The tomb is the earliest known work of Inigo Jones.[2]

Tunstall Hall is a Grade II* listed building, built in about 1732, formerly a girls' school, and now a residential home offering specialist care in dementia.[3] [4]

The engineer Samuel Owen, who later emigrated to Sweden where he became an industrialist, was born at Norton in 1774.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Civil Parish population 2011. 29 November 2015.
  2. Giles Worsley, Inigo Jones and the European Classical Tradition (Yale, 2007), p. 6.
  3. Web site: Tunstall Hall - Norton in Hales - Shropshire - England. British Listed Buildings. 21 September 2014.
  4. Web site: History of Tunstall Hall Care Centre. 21 September 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055842/http://www.stphilipscare.com/news-article.php?n=440. 4 March 2016. dead.
  5. Web site: Post. nortoninhales.